Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. As such, I'd strongly recommend removing board real-estate as a license limiting feature. To wrap up, organically hitting a license limitation is infuriating. Whereas, board real-estate is much more organic. This is because changing the number of layers is basically a full redesign. I hear more often 'we should have made this a 4 layer board' than 'oh, let's just add a layer'. This is primarily due to complexity of design as well as cost. Whereas, the number of layers on a board is usually more rigid. As such, when new features are added in, typically the easiest response is 'let's just make the board a little bigger'. Usually it's a 'make it as small as possible' mentality. The overall size isn't known when you go into it. I understand the limitation on layers and potentially reserving features for the most expensive tier of EAGLE, but size? Why?ĭesigns typically are semi-organic. Warner: The ability to collaborate in the Cloud in similar ways as Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox is a genuinely transformative idea and capability for designers and the electronics industry as a whole. Admittedly, at that point, we abandoned EAGLE and swapped to KiCAD for the entire rest of the project. If they require additional capability, then Altium 365 Pro is available for an additional US1000 to their existing subscription. In short, we thought we were in the clear since it was a simple two layer board however, it ended up being large enough that we were license limited. We started the project out and did the schematic layout etc, and then got to the pcb layout side of things.

We have the cheapest paid for version of EAGLE.

We had a huge project come in ( for the super bowl ) and were excited to use EAGLE as the primary tool for it.

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